Tea Party Museum

Whadaya know, the Northern Avenue bridge still works

adamg — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:13:58 +0000

Video of the Tea Party Museum's Beaver on its entry into Fort Point Channel this morning, with the Northern Avenue bridge swun open to let it through.

Via DotRat, who also has a clip of the ship further out in the harbor.

Tea-party ship leaves Gloucester; to arrive in Boston in time for real Patriots Day

adamg — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:42:17 +0000

Good Morning Gloucester has photos of the Beaver, the first of three ships meant for the Tea Party Museum, leaving Gloucester on its way to Fort Point Channel.

It's scheduled to arrive in the channel tomorrow morning, on the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Tea Party ships get ready for trip to Boston

adamg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:04:13 +0000

Good Morning Gloucester posts some photos of the ships, being built in Gloucester.

Licensing Board: Dorchester bar did nothing wrong the night seven people were stabbed

adamg — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:10:10 +0000

The Boston Licensing Board today found "no violation" in the actions of Ups N Downs on Feb. 23, when somebody stabbed seven people, but the bar remains closed and still plans to shut down forever.

The bar argued the incident, in which exchanged words escalated into a brawl and then somebody whipped out a knife, was unforeseeable. A bar security person testified Tuesday none of the fighters were regulars at the Neponset Circle bar.

Ups N Downs attorney Michael Ford said today he is pleased the board agreed that not only could bar workers not have seen the fight coming, but that they did everything they could to bring it under control, and, after that didn't work, called 911 for help.

Reflections on Fort Point Channel

adamg — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:58:27 +0000

Greg MacKay photographed the Congress Street Bridge and the nearing-completion Tea Party Museum.

Copyright Greg MacKay. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Tea Party Museum outsources again

adamg — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:24:29 +0000

First it was the movie about Lexington and Concord filmed in Virginia. Now, the Herald reports (in its latest negative story about the project), the museum chose a Georgia sculptor to create some sculptures. Naturally, the Herald finds local sculptors who think that's a dumb thing to do and leaves a positive comment about the move to the very bottom of the story.

Probably not many wooden roofs going up along the waterfront these days

adamg — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:09:01 +0000

Every day, it looks more likely that this time, the Tea Party Museum will actually reopen. On Tuesday, some roofers were busy up on, well, the roof.

When did they pave over Lexington Green?

adamg — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:41:52 +0000

A movie company hired by the Tea Party Museum will film a re-creation of the Battle of Lexington on a field just west of Richmond, Va.

The Herald summons ye olde outrage over the moviemaking, set for next month. As the Herald notes, the Tea Party Museum is getting $21 million in Massachusetts tax subsidies.

On its site, LionHeart FilmWorks claims:

The concentration of events in this 10-minute project to the events of early 1775 is allowing the Director to be able to focus on intimate details of the era and events from Lexington Green, so that it may be portrayed and illustrated with strict detail, perhaps for the first time with such detail and authenticity on screen. That is our mission.

Or maybe it's because we just don't have enough Revolutionary recreators around here. Right?

A detailed and authentic Eastern Massachusetts civilian impression is requested to most accurately portray the 77 American Patriots that stood on Lexington Green. Even though we are filming in summer, the night of April 18th and early morning of the 19th would have been more than a little chilly. Wool garments are preferred, including coats and some greatcoats.

Mmm, yeah, wool greatcoats in July in Virginia.

The two-newspaper town, Tea Party Museum edition

adamg — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:41:16 +0000

The Herald follows up today on the Globe's fluff piece yesterday about the rebuilt Tea Party Museum with a front-pager:

REVOLTING:

A planned new Boston Tea Party Museum - dedicated to the history of America’s first tax revolt - is receiving millions of dollars in city and state aid while the private project's price tag has tripled in just five years, a Herald review shows.

Convention center, city to loan company $21 million to rebuild the Tea Party museum

adamg — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:14:42 +0000

The Globe reports.

Hopefully some of that money will go to fireproofing, since the ship burned down in 1991, and what was left of the old museum building burned in 2007.